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Powering the entire unit lifecycle With customized services, innovative technologies and products

From feasibility studies to unit start-up and follow-up throughout the entire unit life cycle, Axens Group is ideally positioned to cover the entire value chain while ensuring the highest level of performance with reduced environmental footprint.

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From feasibility studies to unit start-up and follow-up throughout the entire unit life cycle, Axens Group is ideally positioned to cover the entire value chain while ensuring the highest level of performance with reduced environmental footprint.

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Consulting: Project Development Support

At the onset of a project, Axens studies can provide an accurate, global and coherent approach to the technical and financial definition of your project. With a dedicated team of experts, Axens will ensure your plan will be maximizing value creation, resilient to changes and sustainable.

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CEED Studies

Basic design is the best moment for an operator to optimize the use of every resource and optimize a project environmental impact and economics. Custom and Efficient Early Design (CEED) Studies can be performed at the beginning of the basic engineering stage as a powerful decision-making tool.

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Process Technologies and Design

As a major global process licensor Axens offers tailor-made energy technology solutions in refining, petrochemical, gas and renewables and can deliver complete basic engineering design packages for an optimized design detailed engineering review.

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Construction of furnaces & waste heat recovery units

Through its Heurtey Petrochem Solutions brand, Axens is a supplier of furnace equipment, waste heat recovery units and services for the refining, petrochemicals and gas markets.

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Construction of modular units

A modularization strategy offers ascendant advantages versus on-site manufacturing. Axens can provide tailor-made designs based on inlet feed conditions and meeting outlet specifications.

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Equipment Supply

Axens offers industry players extensive in-house mechanical and instrumentation expertise around our technologies focusing on proprietary equipment. This expertise is completed by wide-ranging experience with other equipment such as vessels, internals, packing, heat exchangers, valves, analyzers and instrumentation as well as chemicals.

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From feasibility studies to unit start-up and follow-up throughout the entire unit life cycle, Axens Group is ideally positioned to cover the entire value chain while ensuring the highest level of performance with reduced environmental footprint.

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Unit & Equipment Commissioning

Axens can dispatch a team of Advisors to the site who provides a complete and detailed inspection of the units and associated equipment to ensure the construction conformity to Axens’ original Process Design Package.

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First loads of catalysts/adsorbent

A first load of catalyst / adsorbent is delivered on site. Axens advisors ensure the supervision of the on-site catalyst / adsorbents loading with specific assistance such as the Axens Catapas dense loading services.

Pre-start-up training

Pre Start-up training is essential to gain a thorough understanding of the Unit operation before first start-up. This training,is a unique opportunity that cannot be missed to collect all technical information for a smooth start-up and an optimized operationThe pre-start-up training package includes classroom and simulator sessions and could be complemented with similar plant sessions done in Partners’ site.

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Unit start-up & performance check (test-run)

As a partner, a team of experts will be on site at the critical stages of your project: catalysts activation, fresh feed-in, unit tuning and stabilization, performance tests. At the end, your unit is efficiently running at full capacity producing on-spec products.

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Axens is fully committed to be a reliable partner who provides assistance during the entire unit lifecycle, including support to operation optimization, troubleshooting, feeds and products analysis.

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Operation Support & Troubleshooting

To optimize the unit’s performances, conduct troubleshooting and feeds/products analysis, Axens provides assistance either regularly or on-request, either remotely or on-site. Depending on the required assistance, Axens’ Tech Advisors are dispatched to the site to evaluate the operation and propose a strategy to recover or improve performance. Furthermore, digital tools such as Connect’In™ can support online the set of Tech Services for unit operation follow-up and optimization.

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Margin Improvements

Axens’ margin improvement studies encompass all technical and economic factors to provide clear directions for easy and rapid deployment of margin improvement programs.

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Unit revamping & Retrofits

Revamping can significantly help readjust the refinery product slate and maximizing the value of existing assets. Axens offers a pragmatic approach to help operators to select the best revamp scheme for their unit.

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Re-loads of catalysts/adsorbents

Relying on a reliable expertise to anticipate the unit end of cycle/life, Axens delivers on-time the reloads of product in order to meet with the unit shut-down requirements. Axens Tech. Services advisor provides on-site support to optimize transient operations as per standard operating guidelines.

Refresher training

Based on Unit follow-up and thorough behavior analysis, and dedicated for both new comers and experienced staff, Refresher trainings are essential for enhancing engineers and operators’ skills while unit is in operation.

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Advanced Process Control

As a process licensor and catalyst supplier, Axens has first-hand knowledge, of the best strategies for implementation of APC projects. APC provided by Axens ensures robust control, increases process operation stability and allows operators to reach the economical optimum yield through unique services and applications.

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Catalysts & Adsorbents Management

With Orchestra™, Axens provides full support for Catalysts & Adsorbents management change-outs,while meeting cost reduction, targets and deadline with Orchestra™.

Axens provides a full tech services package offer related to mercury removal through D2D (Design to Disposal).

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Innovative Technologies and Products

Consulting, Support & Supply services

  • Consulting

    Powering Smarter Ways

  • Unit Revamps & Retrofits

    Maximize the Value of your existing assets

  • Modular Unit

    A smart execution strategy for your project

  • Training

  • Technical Support & Performance Management

  • Environmental systems & services

    Furnaces

    Energy efficiency awareness can lead to tremendous economic and environmental benefits. Expert studies show that there is still vast untapped energy efficiency potential of up to 25% of heavy industry in Europe alone.

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  • Advanced software & applications

    Innovative approach leveraging digital solutions

  • Equipment Supply

    desalter

    During decades of technology developments, Axens has acquired a deep expertise in mechanical design, instrumentation, automation to provide more innovation and benefits to its customers. Synergies between process and equipment maximize performance and long-term reliability.

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